Day 41 continued: the unexpected zoo

We decide to visit the parc de tete Lyon next. It is 100 acres and is filled with green houses, botanical gardens, joggers, zig zagging paths and surprisingly a zoo! The zoo is open air and just part of the park so it's free to view the animals. There are deer, turtles, those Madagascar animals that look a bit like raccoons and live in the trees, buffalo type animals with big horns, flamingos! and pink pelicans! Liz's fun fact for the day flamingos are pink because of the food they eat- shrimp -so the pelicans have obviously been eating too much of the flamingos dinner!  We then went in search of frogs legs for an early dinner but no success - no one is open for an early dinner. We settle for pasta in a box :( it was good though and did the job. Last time up the hill then off to Montpellier.  We meet a businessman in the train. He is an environmental engineer or "the smiling bad guy" as he puts it. He seems like the kind of person who plays the good husband at home but a bit of a party goer when he travels- just the vibe we got from some of his stories. But a good chat and a nice person all the same. The interesting thing is he never learnt English. He taught himself by reading English books and watching movies. But his English was great. So that's all I need to do- watch la vita bella without subtitles and read Italian books...